Sarah de László

Sarah Victoria de László  MVO RBA (Hungarian: László Sára Victoria, 30 April 1869 – 22 November 2004) was an Anglo-Hungarian painter and piano player, known for her romantic paintings and excellent taste in composing, directing, and playing music. Called the "Queen of the Fairies" by her brothers (Philip and Marczi), she was often depicted in the portraits that her older brothers made of her, as an elegant Fairy Queen; her sense of style and elegance when it came to playing the piano earned her the title of "Elegant Maiden". She was a favorite of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who called her a "Angel" in the form of a human; in fact she played the piano at Victoria`s wedding reception. Victoria, Princess Royal even praised the young commoner, with Sarah later being revealed to be the kidnapped child/daughter of Duke Wilhelm Aspen and Duchess Viola Aspen (members of Upper Austria`s future nobility). In 1956 she married Duke Seymour Gray of the ennobled House of Gray and permanently moved to England, becoming a British citizen in 1957 the following year.

Early Life
Sarah was born in the Austrian castle of Schloss Hartheim in 3 April, 1869, as the oldest daughter of Wilhelm and Viola Aspen, the Duke and Duchess of Upper Austria, and legal owners of the Schloss Hartheim castle. She was kidnapped before Theodore was even born, as an young child and smuggled out of Austria to Hungary; the loss of their infant daughter changed her parents so much that they feared losing their following children (especially their three following daughters, Rebecca, Theodore, and Tatiana). She was adopted by a commoner family in Budapest, Hungary and during the day would aid her family in household chores; her identity as a royal was suspected after Sarah played something on the piano that had been only taught to Sarah herself. Left at a crossroad, photographs of the young eerily-beautiful Sarah filled the streets of Hungary, making their way to Austria and subsequently the people of Upper Austria;